Tonsillectomy waiting time at Noarlunga Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Noarlunga Centre area of South Australia was 239 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 239 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 34 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 114 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 91 days in 2011–12 to 239 days in 2024–25 — up 163% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 26 km away, at 165 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Noarlunga Hospital	239 days	not published	34 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	111 days	11.4%	1161 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	182 days	17.0%	16182 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 182 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 15 km away330 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 26 km away165 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 27 km away97 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 29 km away75 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 38 km away212 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 46 km away120 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 65 km away267 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 215 km away26 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Noarlunga Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	91	64	98
2012–13	124	69	98
2013–14	195	71	99
2014–15	298	76	124
2015–16	not reported for this period	87	120
2016–17	not reported for this period	67	97
2017–18	90	86	121
2018–19	287	84	125
2019–20	215	92	130
2020–21	300	98	253
2021–22	250	138	168
2022–23	213	118	174
2023–24	272	140	185
2024–25	239	111	182

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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